The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

The UBC team's research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, dubbed the highly-specialized neurons 'ovoid cells.' ...

I am a 67-year-old male with generally good vision. I have had a few floaters in my eyes over the years, but they have generally been small ...

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of the body. These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons ...

The brain collection, called Denmark's Brain Bank, contains more than 10,000 human brains and tissue samples from human brains, used for research into neurological diseases like stroke ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord ... and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and multiple ...

Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan, and Dr. Hironori Watanabe from Waseda University, in collaboration with others, used electroencephalography (EEG) to map the brain’s response ...

Scientists have taken a look at the effect dying has on the human brain and what they found is pretty insane. The idea that your brain just stops working when you die couldn't be further from the ...

Our bodies rely on their lymphatic system to drain excessive ... setting,” Hauglund says. Most brain imaging techniques require a subject, an animal or a human, to be still.

Human capital ... in the health system that require urgent attention. Collective efforts from the government, private sector, and stakeholders in addressing all these emerging problems down to the ...

Octopus arms are equipped with a remarkably complex nervous system, containing more neurons collectively in their eight arms than in their brain. This extensive network of neurons is concentrated in a ...